Word: neapolitan
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...with diabolic humor, had released from Naples' jails before they cleared from the city. They went through the city looting. Others were the kin of men who had been executed by German firing squads, or shot on sight for being on the streets after curfew. They sought out Neapolitan Fascists to lynch them. Yelling girls ran with them. Older women gaped from doorways at the corpses of neighbors lying in gutters, screeched and waved their hands, ducked out of sight when German bombers roared overhead...
...operatic night in Brooklyn when blood suddenly spurted in Enrico Caruso's throat and his career was at an end. But last week, as the United Nations took Naples, hosts of people older than Gloria Caruso could vividly recall the man who was not merely the most famous Neapolitan of recent times, but also a world figure of the first magnitude...
Wilson finds the starting point of socialist historical thinking in a little-known book-Principles of a New Science Dealing with the Nature of Nations, Through Which Are Shown Also New Principles of the Natural Law of Peoples. The author was an obscure, cranky, 18th-Century Neapolitan, Giovanni Battista Vico. Vico had read Francis Bacon. He decided that it was possible to apply to the study of human history the scientific methods Bacon applied to nature. Hitherto history had been written in terms of the lives of great men, as a chronicle of unusual events, as a show directed...
Chicago was strident, corrupt, lavish, fat from war contracts in 1919 when a young hoodlum from Brooklyn slipped into Diamond Jim Colosimo's South Side underworld and muttered his name. The hoodlum, branded on one swart cheek by the razor memento of the Neapolitan Camorra, was Al Capone...
Before the opening performance buxom Neapolitan Soprano Maria Caniglia was found crawling about the Met's splintery stage in search of bent nails. Reason: An old Neapolitan superstition that bent nails mean luck. She found a half dozen, toted them about with her while she sang the part of Desdemona in the season's opener, Otello. Thus equipped, Soprano Caniglia sang lustily, was lustily choked in the last act by Tenor Giovanni Martinelli (Otello) who finally covered her face with a pillow. The performance over, she had the ecstatic satisfaction (see cut) of being smothered again by flowers...